Re: Help getting KDE!

[Steffen Evers]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 21:48, Neal Lippman wrote:
> My problem now is: How do I get kde? apt-get install kde doesn't work, 
> telling me I need to specify a package name. Looking at the listing of 
> packages in /var/apt/cache, there are a whole bunch of kde-related packages, 
> but it isn't clear what to select to just get the whole kde installed (I am 
> assuming that when I apt-get kde, X will come along automatically due to 
> dependencies). Do I need to install each kde package individually? That 
> doesn't seem right, since I thought the whole point of debian (well, one of 
> the whole points, anyway) was the power and simplicity of apt-get.

Better discuss this on the debian-kde list, but right it's a user issue
as well :-)

Are there kde packages installed, which version?

Run dpkg -l "*kde*" to find that out.

Maybe you have installed kde and it simply does not start?

For sure, not all X packages are installed that you need.
Do you jave any xclients/xdm/kdm things?

The other thing is:

The kde packages in woody have been a lot in transition lately:
2.2.0 -> 2.2.1 -> 2.2.2

As you should not mix kde packages from different versions, most kde
woody users have problems. I have solved that by getting the kde
packages from sid/unstable.

Bye, Steffen

Help getting KDE!

[Neal Lippman]

I could use some pointers; I've gone back a few months in the mailing list 
archives, and just cannot find an answer to this.

I'm a debian newbie, having been running Mandrake for the past year. I just 
got a second computer to use for debian, figuring I'd work out all the kinks 
on the install there before trashing my "main" machine with a from-scratch 
debian install.

Anyway, I got potato CDs (burned them from downloaded isos) and installed 
potato on the new system, without installing X. I then upgraded to woody 
(changed stable to testing in sources.list, and did apt-get update and 
apt-get upgrade-dist) and this seemed to go ok (actually I lost the "man" 
command, but apt-get install man-db seemed to fix that). 

My problem now is: How do I get kde? apt-get install kde doesn't work, 
telling me I need to specify a package name. Looking at the listing of 
packages in /var/apt/cache, there are a whole bunch of kde-related packages, 
but it isn't clear what to select to just get the whole kde installed (I am 
assuming that when I apt-get kde, X will come along automatically due to 
dependencies). Do I need to install each kde package individually? That 
doesn't seem right, since I thought the whole point of debian (well, one of 
the whole points, anyway) was the power and simplicity of apt-get.

I also tried tasksel, but while it does give me gnome as a choice, I prefer 
kde and that doesn't seem to be one of the pre-configured tasks.

Help appreciated, especially if there is some location I should be looking in 
that gives this sort of information in general for various packages. I have a 
bunch of stuff on my MDK system that was installed by the MDK installer 
automagically (like cdrecord and cups). I don't mind getting the specific 
things I want via apt-get (in fact, I prefer it so my harddrive doesn't 
resemble a junkyard filled with stuff I don't want) but it's a bummer if I 
have to ask for help to identify the packages needed for each thing.

Neal